Both Halpern and Markus will be presenting works that touch on and expand on themes and ideas addressed in MOCAD’s two current exhibitions, barely there (part two) and Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory).

MOCAD is located at 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit, 48201. Call 313-832-6622 for more info.

Wednesday Night Sessions is a new monthly reading series based out of Farmington, Michigan, sponsored by four local publishers: Absinthe: New European Writing, Black Coffee Press, Dzanc Books and Midwestern Gothic. The goal of this series is to bring together local authors and poets, listen to some great readings, and have a good time.

Wednesday Night Sessions meets the last Wednesday of every month. The first session, on Wednesday, September 29 at 7 p.m., will take place at the Mentobe Cafe in downtown Farmington and feature David James, David LaBounty, and Peter Markus.

PETER MARKUS is the author of three short books of short-short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish, as well as a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat (Dzanc Books 2008). His stories have appeared widely in such magazines as Chicago Review, Black Warrior Review, Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, among many others, as well as in a number of flash fiction anthologies including New Sudden Fiction and Sudden Stories. He grew up in Trenton, Michigan, and lives there still.

RENEE GLADMAN is the author of Arlem, Not Right Now, Juice The Activist, A Picture Feeling, and Newcomer Can’t Swim. Since 2004, she has been the editor and publisher of Leon Works, a perfect bound series of books for experimental prose. She was previously the editor of the Leroy chapbook series, publishing innovative poetry and prose by emerging writers. She teaches writing at Brown University.

Peter Markus is the author of four books of fiction, the most recent of which is the novel Bob, or Man on Boat (Dzanc Books). He is also a guest editor of the forthcoming MOCAD journal Detroit: Stories.

Kristin Palm is the author of The Straits (Palm Press), her first full-length work featuring two long poems about Detroit. A Detroiter for many years, Kristin now lives in California.